Module talk:User:DerekWinters/Baybayin

Hello. Do you think this should be added to Tagalog entries as a sort of auto-translit? I know it won't work for all (namely mga), but it will work for at least 90%, right? Let me know what you think. DerekWinters (talk) 20:03, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * These are my thoughts as of now. It can be added to Tagalog entries as a sort of auto-translit. But some thoughts to consider:


 * 1) Of course, "ng" and "mga" are not phonetically written, unlike other words. There are other popular words not written phonetically too, like "barangay" and "kongreso". That's why I prefer the more phonetic spellings "baranggay" and "konggreso".
 * 2) Proper nouns in Tagalog would often be spelled using a Spanish or English orthography, so that won't work too.
 * 3) There are also slang words that if we use the more popular colloquial spellings of it (and not prescribe its phonetic spelling), that won't work too.
 * 4) Also, I don't know how we would transcribe dashes
 * 5) There is also an issue with which type of Baybayin you use. Of course, no one uses the pre-Spanish Baybayin without a virama. Everyone who writes in Baybayin nowadays uses a virama, so it's reasonable to have a virama in the module. Another is differentiating "d" from "r" "e" from "i", and "o" from "u".
 * Just a few thoughts. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 08:08, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * We might be able to make something like or  for words that would have to be phonetically respelled for Bayabyin.
 * Proper nouns can also be done this way. Hyderabad can be, Washington can be  , etc.
 * I think dashes can be kept as dashes for all the hyphenated terms.
 * I only use the virama-style Baybayin, and I think it's the only practical way to have it. It's already in the module. Unicode so far hasn't given a differentiation for d and r, but somehow, using the Baybayin Unicode Mono font, shows the letter r. But in most cases, isn't r just an intervocalic allophone of r?
 * Similarly, aren't e and o just allophones of i and u? I've seen things like piru and more in many Spanish loanwords, so I'm assuming (but not entirely sure) that they are still treated as allophones.
 * Also, I don't know too much about Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and more, but I know that they were also written in Baybayin. If you wish this can also be implemented it for these. DerekWinters (talk) 22:25, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
 * In case my ping didn't go through. DerekWinters (talk) 20:42, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * In case my ping didn't go through. DerekWinters (talk) 20:42, 16 November 2017 (UTC)